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Charles Harris - Biography |
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An
award-winning
writer-director, Charles Harris came to features after a varied early
career which
ranged from
freelance photography and fifth Dan black belt in Aikido. Starting in the film industry as a projectionist in a dubbing theatre, where he learned about film-making by watching the very end of the process, he moved to TV as a cutting-room assistant before becoming an editor for BBC and LWT and then finally director of TV documentaries and video.  The time he spent
as a photographer early in his career
can be seen in his strongly visual style and his very first
documentary as director, Marc Chagall, The Colours of Passion,
won awards. Further award-wining films included the BBC2 art documentary Post Impressions, Downburst - the part-dramatisation of a tense air-crash investigation - and satirical BBC documentary Sex, Drugs and Dinner. He has always loved storytelling in all forms - and went on to direct Brookside and fringe theatre. Overall, his credits include work with such diverse names as James Stewart, Alexei Sayle, Spike Milligan and Melvyn Bragg. His drama short On the 8 Ball (co-directed with Philip Chavannes) screened by Channel 4 was selected for showing in the British Pavilion in Cannes in "the best in contemporary UK independent film and video". This led to his first feature as director, Paradise Grove, a darkly comic coming-of-age story starring Ron Moody and Rula Lenska, which won awards including Best New Director in Palm Springs. His latest TV films are Silent Voices written by Barbara Gorna - a hard-hitting TV docudrama based around issues of domestic violence - and the shorts Ghost Story and LovePik, written by Katie Douglas. He has published short stories, two of which were short-listed for awards and is currently editing his first novel. His first non-fiction book Police Slang was published in 2010 by Abson Books. He is also qualified as a Master Practitioner of Neuro-Linguistic Programming. For odd musings into screenwriting, novel writing, psychology and sundry other matters check out his blog: chasharrisfootloose  Follow Charles Harris on Twitter |
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